[FreedomPoster]

Your thoughts?

From this:

The new study of the Iraqi regime's archives found no documents indicating a "direct operational link" between Hussein's Iraq and al Qaida before the invasion, according to a U.S. official familiar with the report.

it appears they're trumping up some very careful wording.

[Pietro]

This sounds like the same hatchet job pulled off by the NIE last year concerning Iranian nukes. After the big splash the ACTUAL report was exactly the opposite of the press release.

Anonymous sources have no credibility.

[r-q-tek86]

ping

[LSUfan]

I am smelling a big, dirty rat with this latest story about Saddam and Al Qaeda.

First, they’re using that term again: “operational” ties. They never used it before Operation Iraqi Freedom. I still don’t know what the definition is. After the 9-11 Commission Report came out, the Left trumpeted this same tune loud and long basically telling the media that there was no connection between Saddam’s Iraq and Al Qaeda.

But if you read the actual 9-11 Commission report, that’s not what it says at all.

Now we get this leaked story before another actual report comes out. The report is likely to be long and few members of the media will bother to read it. But they’ve already reported that Iraq and Al Qaeda had no connections...I bet dollars to donuts that the report doesn’t say this.

I am reading a book right now called “Both In One Trench: Saddam’s Secret Terror Documents.” It is a difficult read, but the authors maintain two things:

1. Saddam had a very friendly relationship with the Taliban.

2. Zawahiri probably visited Iraq at least once and evidently got some sort of support or had communications with Iraq when he was with Egyptian Islamic Jihad...

[PGalt]

More evidence here...

http://www.husseinandterror.com/

from post #3323 of granny’s thread #11 on world terrorism. Thanks granny.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks pgalt.

according to a U.S. official familiar with the report... and others [who] spoke to McClatchy on condition of anonymity because the study isn't due to be shared with Congress and released before Wednesday.

The "others" who spoke weren't familiar with the report, and of course none of them will ever have to be named because they're anonymous.

[Wuli]

the most factual and truthful statement that could have been said about the specific documents and the ‘analysis’ of them would have been

‘the regime of saddam hussein did not leave a paper trail of their contacts and points of cooperation with osama bin laden and al queda’

whereupon, we should say: no kidding sherlock